GNOME just got a €1M investment from
@sovtechfund https://omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/gnome-sovereign-tech-fund
US lawmakers are asking to restrict American participation in RISC-V "to prevent China from gaining dominance in CPU technology". The request is misguided. I wrote a letter to the US government on the subject:
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6862
I'd appreciate if anyone can help amplify or route the message, so that US rule-makers can better understand the issue.
If you don’t agree with my stance, I encourage you to also send a letter expressing your views, so your opinions can be heard.
Have you heard? Inkscape will be 20 years old this month!
We want YOU to create something for the #Inkscape anniversary! T-shirts, comic strips, embroidery...
Show us what you can do with Inkscape!
Post your creations to the November challenge page:
https://inkscape.org/forums/competitions/inkscape-challenge-1-november-2023-30-november-2023/
BeagleV-Fire is a $150 single-board PC with a RISC-V processor featuring FPGA fabric #Beagleboard, #Beaglev, #Beaglevfire, #Fpga, #Riscv
Today is a huge day for Apple II software preservation. With the help of Antoine Vignau and @txgx42, we have managed to recover, make playable, and archive renowned game designer Dani Bunten's first game, Wheeler Dealers. Released in 1978/79 and published by Speakeasy Software, a small Canadian developer, Wheeler Dealers is a multi-player stock market simulation that only sold ~50 copies. It is the first (known) computer game to have been sold in a box. The game was considered lost until now.
hey check this out https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
Louis Rossmann just announced #Grayjay, a product to unify media platforms such as #Youtube, #Twitch, #Peertube, #Odysee, etc, to make it easier to follow a particular creator regardless of platform. Grayjay is paid open-source software with a custom/restrictive license.
Website: https://grayjay.app
Announcement: https://youtu.be/5DePDzfyWkw
Source code: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
#louisrossmann #media #streaming #streamer #creator #creators #opensource
Looks like Adafruit is the first organization to reach 600 certified open-source hardware designs at @oshwassociation @OSHWA_OSHW , previously Adafruit was the first to reach 500 certified OSHW designs https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html?q=adafruit we have a bunch more submitted and will do a post, at this time Adafruit is 24.9% of all certified open-source hardware. Special thanks to the Adafruit team submitting these, the API, and @ladyada for a ton of new open-source designs!
Playing with Renoise and monomes on the #MNTReform laptop (A311d CPU). The latency seems to be enough for a live setup, but I wish there were more plugins for ARM #Linux systems.
I gave a talk at Open Source Firmware Conference this year, Reproducible Builds All The Way Down:
https://www.osfc.io/2023/talks/reproducible-builds-all-the-way-down/
Slides available:
It was well received, highlighting many historic #ReproducibleBuilds issues in firmware projects that I maintain in #Debian and touching on the hows and whys of Reproducible Builds.
Open Source Firmware can be a great example of 100% reproducibility, with a narrow scope of code, and is often a key part in early system boot!
Bizarreness of the day
Adobe uses Linux / GNOME in a new product demonstration.
https://youtu.be/barsu1NWE4s?t=366
(at 6:06)
Is your laptop upgradeable? Mine is! I got this upgrade in the mail last week.
This A311D module adds WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, and bumps the CPU performance a lot, going from 4x ARM Cortex-A53 cores on the old module, to 2x A53 and 4x A73! Roughly doubled the performance of my computer, and now I also get to use bluetooth headphones 😎🎶
Company: we sell open-source hardware!
Also company: we only provide schematics
...ok, so by that logic, I suppose my IBM PC from 1983 is also open-source hardware
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